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County Cricket on Sky
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Jack Torrance
Striker
Good stuff, gives me something to watch
Silly Point
Striker
Hopefully not a one off
HarrogateMackem
Striker
why are people happy with this. It’s literally free to air on YouTube at the moment?
County Championship on mainstream telly is always a win in my book marra.
the only thing with this, and I have a long petty memory, was Notts years ago played the one CC game on Sky....Jake Ball bowled well, so for the next 6 months the Sky big shots and media kept saying his name over and over again when asked who they thought should be next line, literally all because of that game. He got an England career out of it and he was nowhere near international standards.
Sky coverage is always class like, there should be more on really. People would watch am convinced.
They will know, but am sure people would tune in and out throughout a week, its that type of format.
Sky coverage is always class like, there should be more on really. People would watch am convinced.
They will know, but am sure people would tune in and out throughout a week, its that type of format.
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HarrogateMackem
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it's not mainstream though. It is completely shut off from anyone who can't afford a subscription. There have been 2 million people who have watched the youtube streams, that's far more "mainstream" than Sky (as I assume for the two sets of fans their free youtube stream won't be playing now sky has got the rights). Having cricket on free-to-air tv is going to do far more for the game than Sky can.
I agree, especially with your point about FTA, but it’s still more exposure for county cricket than they had last week so I’m trying to see the positives.
As for me, Sky don’t get a penny for my Sky ‘subscription’
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
Striker
middlesex............ no thanks
wayne entwhistle no9
Winger
Streaming definitely the way ahead for at theVery least championship cricket. The problem tomorrow with Durham not playing is I end up hopping from stream to stream.
Is that 200,000 people logging on ten times or 2 million individual users?
Given that the Durham streams often have just a few hundred watching that 2 million sounds high!
Steak Pie
Striker
It's not though. If it's on Sky then it's on all their platforms and it's Sky Sports News, rolling highlights in the news cycle, it's on in the background in pubs.
Also, it's a step in the right direction. I've been convinced for a while that County Cricket is a low cost, mass content provider than given a chance, could be a permanent fixture on telly. I hope it works.
Ceverton
Winger
This. There used to be so much more county cricket on tv a few years back. I remember about 1999 sky had cricket on almost everyday and I became quite a Kim Barnett fan for some reason due to sky coverage.
Marko
Striker
TBH I'd rather listen to Marty and his partner than have to suffer the Sky boys.
HarrogateMackem
Striker
I've actually changed my opinion on this since the free Youtube stream is still running at the same time. Being on sky sports and also free on youtube is the best of both worlds and undoubtedly a good thing.
I think I’ve gone the other way
Stuck it on before and it’s just the YouTube stream with the Sky lads prattling on over the top. I’d rather listen to the BBC comms, atleast them blokes are more knowledgeable of the intricacies of their county and sound like they want to be there
HarrogateMackem
Striker
I think I’ve gone the other way
Stuck it on before and it’s just the YouTube stream with the Sky lads prattling on over the top. I’d rather listen to the BBC comms, atleast them blokes are more knowledgeable of the intricacies of their county and sound like they want to be there
Middlesex doesn't use the radio commentary even normally to be fair. They have two specialist stream commentators (Izzy Westbury and Adam Collins) who do every Middlesex game for them specifically for the stream. Along with the Sky boys, they're still commentating I think, so occasionally you get county-specific commentary I suppose. I really like Adam Collins, he's the Aussie one but he's really knowledgeable about the game and I think he's a great commentator as well. But yeah, very low cost, low budget for Sky - probably wouldn't even bother if they had to leave London.Why would they need to? If they can commentate on a test match in India from the UK, why not Durham from London?
